ALLIANCE, Neb. (AP) – One person has been treated after a fire heavily damaged a rural home in the Nebraska Panhandle.
Eagle Radio station KCOW says firetrucks from Hemingford were dispatched around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday to a residence nine miles northeast of Alliance. Alliance firefighters soon joined the battle.
Hemingford Fire Chief Mark Klemke says it took more than six hours to knock down the flames and eliminate hot spots.
Klemke says one person was in the home when the fire was reported. That person was taken to Box Butte General Hospital to be checked for smoke inhalation.
The fire cause is being investigated.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – Federal regulators have approved a Nebraska list that raises the number of impaired waters to 330 in the state.
The Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality submitted a list that removed 21 bodies of water and added 92, bringing the total to 330.
The list is required of each state by the federal Clean Water Act. The act requires the EPA to review the state lists to determine whether the states reasonably considered available water quality data.
The EPA says the lists set priorities for reducing sources of water pollution.
A Nebraska water body is placed on the list when pollutants prevent the lake, river or stream from being used for recreation, agricultural water supply and maintaining aquatic life.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – Nebraska lawmakers will end their session Wednesday with an updated state budget, reforms to help stabilize the lives of foster children, and a tax cut package championed by Gov. Dave Heineman.
They also will attempt to override four bills that Heineman has vetoed. And in an unusual step, the Republican governor said he does not plan to deliver the traditional end-of-session speech to lawmakers.
One measure would allow machine bets on previously run horse races. Another would allow cities to increase their sales tax rates with voter approval. A third would create a grant program for schools to create health centers.
And the fourth -the one expected to generate the most debate – would restore taxpayer-funded prenatal care to low-income women, including illegal immigrants.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) – A Cheyenne man is credited with helping save the life of a 2-year-old who ended up on Interstate 80 after being thrown from a wreck.
Travis Daniels and his father Ray Daniels were driving on I-80 near Pine Bluffs on Tuesday when they saw a car seat in the middle of the highway. The girl was still strapped to it.
Ray Daniels said his son moved the girl out of traffic and he called for help.
The Wyoming Highway Patrol says the car the toddler was in drifted off the side of the highway and rolled three times.
The driver, Cindy Sprey, was in critical condition and passenger, Clay Holmes, of Gering, Neb, was in good condition Tuesday.
The toddler’s condition wasn’t known.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) – A 21-year-old Grand Island man has been given three years in federal prison for not reporting a methamphetamine sale.
A news release from the office of U.S. Attorney Deborah Gilg says Alejandro Robles also must serve a year of supervised release when he gets out of prison.
Robles had pleaded guilty to misprision of a felony, meaning he knew a crime was committed but didn’t report it. Prosecutors say Robles was one of the people present during a meth sale.